What a Week!

It's been quite a week around here...not much knitting got done but I got to see a lot of people I haven't seen in a while. Let's see how much of this I actually remember.


Friday
Ah the night of Harry Potter. So the thing in Harvard square wasn't all that fun while we were there...but then again we were there at like 5:30 so that may have had something to do with it. There wasn't really anyone at the Barnes and Noble party at the Prudential Center..like it was the typical amount of people you would expect in a bookstore and 7PM on a Friday night...just some of them were dressed up like witches and wizards. We catch a train home and get out wristbands for our books and then leave to go eat dinner and pick up my car and drop off leftovers from dinner. Back at the store we nab some of the last trivia sheets and Sarah bought a bunch of books and cds. We head outside at like 11 to go wait in line and there's a nebulous group of people standing in the area where our group is supposed to be so we stand in said nebulous group...shortly thereafter one of the employees says to get on the sidewalk or go to the end of the line...so we get on the sidewalk. About a half-hour later big-gray-haired bouncer-type guy walks up to us and calls us scum for cutting all those little kids who have been waiting for this book. Looking back on this we should have moved toward the back of the line when they told us to get on the sidewalk but that didn't occur to us then and my friend refused to be bullied my this stranger who had no apparent authority. Time progresses and these two little girls, I'm talking like 6 - 8 range are making their way to the front of the line with Dad. Big bouncer guy comes over and says hi to them and has a nice little conversation about them about how excited they are for the book...no mention of them cutting the line at all! Clearly it's okay for Dad to teach his kids to cut in line because they're little and they deserve to get the book before the kids who have essentially been waiting for this book since BEFORE THEY WERE BORN!! It's time to go inside and bouncer guy starts having a fit and swearing at my friend and I as we go in (PS the two little girls wedged themselves in between me and my friend) he appears to be on staff in some way because he is also inside directing the line and proceeds to swear at us again when we get to that portion of the line. Again I'll admit to being an ass...but you don't yell at me for cutting in line, ignore the fact that other people are cutting in line just because they have little kids with them, and then swear like a truck driver at me within earshot of said little kids because I didn't do what you wanted. You, sir, are not my mother, and therefore I will not put up with your attempts at guilting me, end of story.

Saturday
Read Harry Potter. Was good. Not going to say anything else since it seems that most people did not sit down and finish it in one day.

Sunday
Made my way out to Amherst to see Brendan...we went to lunch, played with the cats, and just hung out for a little while nothing terribly special but it was nice since I haven't seen him in about a year. On the way home I stopped for gas because my trip odometer has been wonky and I knew I had driven at least 230 miles and since the gauge said I had about a quarter of a tank I thought it was time. I turn up a random side street to go by CVS on the way home and I happen on a motorcycle accident that had happened about 30 seconds before I got there. Not sure what happened exactly but I do know that the poor guy probably lost his foot because of the accident and that his Mom who was not that far behind him on her own bike will take a very long time to stop blaming herself. I say this because after lending her my cell phone and driving her to the hospital he was being MedFlighted from I know that she was definitely blaming herself because she encouraged him to get the bike in the first place. It was very sad and very nerve-wracking. I was a little bit shaky when I finally got home.

Monday
Just work nothing too special.

Tuesday
Work...of course. After work I headed over to Chinatown to meet a couple of my friends from med school for dinner. We were waiting for Elinor to show up from Wellesley but she either missed the train or the train decided not to come. After about an hour she decided not to come in because she wasn't going o be in Boston very long before she had to head back home. So Laura, Susana, and I headed over to Rock Bottom for dinner and had a good time for ourselves. Then I headed back to Laura's apartment to get the keys to her boyfriend's car. We walk over to his car to find it booted because he didn't pay his parking tickets. So we walk back to her apartment to see if we can borrow his friend's car since and this point I have missed the commuter rail back home. Boyfriend and friend are gone to Best Buy so we wait for them to come back so that we can borrow the car. I finally got home at like quarter of 11...awesome! At least I had fun...it was definitely and adventure.

Wednesday
Went over to Sarah's to just chill and watch TV for a while. Nothing major. I also had an appointment with my allergist and was given a Nasal Lavage kit to try and make my nose happier. "Lavage" makes this process sound pleasant...it is not. This morning I took warm salty water and sprayed it up my nose until it came out the other nostril...definitely not a pleasant experience. I did knit for like 10 minutes last night...I did the first pattern row on the Column of Leaves scarf. Pathetic I know but it's all the knitting I've done this week!

Today
Is payday and therefore awesome. Other than that I very much intend to stay home tonight and knit...most likely the Reversible Cable scarf since I would very much like to finish it at some point in the near future so that I can get to work on something else. Hopefully I'll have some pictures next time.